{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2004-12-07-pt1-PgE2174-2", "2004-12-07", 108, 2, "150", null, "RELEASE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E2174", "E2174", "[{\"name\": \"Mike Pence\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "150 Cong. Rec. E2174", "Congressional Record, Volume 150 Issue 138 (Tuesday, December 7, 2004)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 138 (Tuesday, December 7, 2004)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2174]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n          RELEASE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI\n\n                                 ______\n\n                            HON. MIKE PENCE\n\n                               of indiana\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Tuesday, December 7, 2004\n\n  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight recent and\nprofoundly heartbreaking situations in the brutal authoritarian\ndictatorship of Burma. For nearly two decades, the ruling military\nregime has sought to crush any and all opposition to their complete\ndomination of the country.\n  The military junta's actions have led to the unjust imprisonment of\nover 1,000 political opponents, including the world's only imprisoned\nNobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi. While indications\nrecently hinted at the release of most, if not all, of these political\nprisoners, once again the regime has proven that no trust can be lent\nto their promises. Just days after the promising release of a handful\nof democracy activists, the military junta informed Aung San Suu Kyi\nthat her sentence would be extended one more year.\n  Mr. Speaker, even more appalling, recent reports indicate that five\nBurma Army battalions are involved in slash and burn campaigns in\nethnic minority controlled areas in eastern Burma. These actions follow\nan all-too-familiar pattern of tactics employed by the regime to stifle\nresistance by anti-regime, ethnic minorities. Military are actively\nburning villages and crucial rice supplies. Perhaps a greater outrage\nis the military then land mining the empty villages, and most times,\nthe paths to and from that village so people are unable to return.\nThere is no other intention in these actions than extermination.\n  As a strong advocate for children, I am saddened that the nearly\n7,500 displaced villagers recently fleeing to the jungle include\nnumerous children. The child mortality and malnutrition among these\ndisplaced people are staggering. Not only the children are suffering\nthe effects of this displacement. With nowhere to go, many families are\ndivided and many people die of preventable, treatable diseases.\n  Mr. Speaker, I add my voice to others in this great nation that\ncontinue to seek freedom and democracy for the people of Burma. I\nstrongly object to the continued imprisonment of Nobel Peace Prize\nrecipient Aung San Suu Kyi, and call for her immediate release. I also\nencourage the Administration to take whatever measures necessary to\nexert more pressure on the ruling military regime.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2004-12-07-pt1-PgE2174-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.3772890195250511, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}